The
MIT Enterprise Forum is a not for profit organization. We rely on our
sponsors to contribute towards program administrative and event costs.
Sustaining Sponsors make an annual grant and
become partners with the Forum in developing and implementing the
program. Our sustaining partners include:
Sustaining Sponsors
Innovation Works, Inc.
is a regional development company whose mission is to increase the
new-enterprise success rate in southwestern Pennsylvania by insuring
that the highest-potential new technology companies have efficient
access to the right people, expertise, and risk capital.
ThoughtForm is a team of people who work together to plan, write, design, and produce solutions to communication problems. Founded in 1980, they have lots of experience designing brands, interactive media, print communications, environmental graphics, and packages.
The University of Pittsburgh Office of Technology Management (OTM) serves as the hub of technology commercialization activity at the University. Its mission: To facilitate the development of products and processes from University technology for the benefit of the University, its faculty, staff and students, and the community. OTM fosters out-licensing opportunities with industry, and new start-up companies.
Corporate Sponsors
Our Corporate Sponsors are market leaders who help fund, organize and assist with the sustainability of the MIT Enterprise Forum. Through an annual financial commitment, the Forum continues to provide quality events to the local entrepreneurial and corporate community. Our Corporate Sponsors include:
Ad-Base Group – Ad-Base Group, Inc. has recently transformed into an early-stage investor company. Different than traditional funding sources, Ad-Base Group has a unique model that gives the entrepreneur power over their own ideas. They are comprised of highly-experienced professionals who thrive on hands-on involvement with each portfolio company. This distinctive business model has created a toolbox of resources for Ad-Base Group, and its subsidiaries to benefit from, including engineering expertise, technical support and customer service, sales and marketing, legal support, and complete billing solutions.
Ad-Base Group has recently achieved national recognition for explosive growth, ranking 1,391 on the Inc. 5,000 list of Fastest Growing Companies in the US. This growth is a combination of working with individual entrepreneurs and through the acquisition of companies that are strategically aligned with Ad-Base Group’s ability to deliver powerful, market-driven solutions. Ad-Base Group is also one of the 50 Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania according to the Pittsburgh Business Times and the Central Penn Journal, in addition to being recognized on the Pittsburgh 100 Fastest Growing Companies for the 3rd year in a row. Visit www.AdBaseGroup.com to learn more.
K&L Gates delivers legal services on an integrated and global basis, with 1,500 lawyers located in 24 cities on three continents. We represent a broad array of capital markets participants, leading global corporations in every major industry, and ambitious middle-market and emerging growth companies. We also serve public sector entities, educational institutions and philanthropic organizations. Our lawyers counsel clients on their most sophisticated legal challenges in all areas of corporate and regulatory law as well as litigation.
Event Sponsors
Event Sponsors make a grant, receive recognition and become a featured
element of the specific event which is sponsored. Our event sponsors
include: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Gefsky and Lehman, P.C., Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, M2Technology, Pepper Hamilton LLP, PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP, Seagate Technology, Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP,
University of Pittsburgh Office of Enterprise Development, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Office of Technology Management.
For details about sponsoring the forum, send email to: contact@mitforumpgh.com |
